Over the past year we’ve seen an explosion in ransomware attacks – over 10x according to FortiGuard Labs – making the odds increasingly high that your organization will be attacked. In fact, a recent ransomware survey demonstrates that ransomware has become the top threat concern for most organizations globally. This can be attributed to a perfect storm of factors:
- The increase in working from home opened up the network and expanded the attack surface. Organizations have reported that one in five successful data breaches originated from a remote worker.
- The convergence of operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) and the loss of the historical “air gap” increased the risks to formerly isolated OT systems.
